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Data Based Automation
- Metadata is added to Web resources
- they describe properties of the resource
- W3C's RDF gives a unified model to do this
- Metadata vocabularies (ontologies) can be developed
- allows for logical reasoning on the metadata, e.g.
- "if this property is true, then that property is true..."
- "this property is that same as that property..."
- etc.
- W3C develops a Web Ontology Language
- allows for logical reasoning on the metadata, e.g.
- Applications are based on analysing the metadata
- e.g., search engines
| Ivan Herman, W3C Head of Offices | London, 12 June, 2003 | 15 (30) |